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Iowa Summer Music Camps feature nine free performances
Published: 2013.05.17 | By Christopher Clair | 8:49 AM
Published: 2013.05.17
By Christopher Clair
8:49 AM
Top high-school musicians from throughout the Midwest and other parts of the United States are converging on the University of Iowa for the 2013 Iowa Summer Music Camps. The camps, which run June 9-28, will include nine free concerts. Story
 

Hancher to present free Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience concert

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2013.05.07 | By Erin Donohue | 09:16 AM
Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience

The University of Iowa’s Hancher will present Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience on Friday, May 17, at 6:30 p.m. in the Iowa City Pedestrian Mall, next to the Sheraton Hotel. The concert will kick off the 2013 edition of the Summer of the Arts Friday Night Concert Series. Story

Scenes from ArtsFest 2013

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2013.05.06 | By Bill Adams | 12:22 PM
A woman's reflection in a mirror that has mannequin legs sticking out from under it.

ArtsFest, held Friday in the University of Iowa's Studio Arts Building, was a free, interactive art experience presented by graduate and undergraduate students in the UI School of Art and Art History that featured artwork by the students, as well as demonstrations and hands–on opportunities in studio art and art history. Photo Feature

UI encourages Lemme students with bilingual writing experiment

Iowa City Press-Citizen: UI encourages Lemme students with bilingual writing experiment
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2013.05.05
Martín Rodriguez Chaparro reads with Lemme fourth-grader Emmett Blanton during a session March 6 practicing Spanish and English writing and literature. / Benjamin Roberts / Iowa City Press-Citizen

UI students and faculty have been leading weekly writing workshops at Lemme Elementary School, helping the kids craft stories and visual projects using Spanish and English as part of the bilingual Iowa Youth Writers Project. (Editor's Note: A paid subscription may be required.) Story from: Iowa City Press-Citizen

Iowa City Press-Citizen

Spotlight: Rising Waters, Rapid Changes

UI Obermann Center for Advanced Studies website: Spotlight: Rising Waters, Rapid Changes
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2013.05.01
A photo of water moving over sandbags and around trees during the Iowa flooding of 2008 in Iowa City

An exhibition and oral history about the flood of 2008, "Rising Waters, Rapid Changes," is on display now through the month of May in the window of Hands Jewelers, co-sponsored by the UI Obermann Center for Advanced Studies as part of the first-ever UI graduate seminar in public histor Story from: UI Obermann Center for Advanced Studies website

UI Obermann Center for Advanced Studies website

Guest artists to join Agrell for May 11 concert

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2013.05.03 | By Christopher Clair | 10:18 AM

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a faculty recital by Jeffrey Agrell, associate professor of horn, at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 11, in the University Capitol Centre Recital Hall in downtown Iowa City. Agrell will be joined by guest artists Matt Smart (piano), William Koehler (bass), and Sean Connors (percussion). The recital is free and the public is welcome. Story

Horn Studio students to perform recital May 7

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2013.05.03 | By Christopher Clair | 10:13 AM

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free recital by Horn Studio students, led by UI faculty member Jeffrey Agrell, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 7, in the University Capitol Centre Recital Hall in downtown Iowa City. This concert will feature each member of the studio playing one work; several pieces were composed by the students. Story

Camerata, Kantorei to perform May 11

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2013.05.03 | By Christopher Clair | 10:12 AM

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free concert by the choral ensembles Camerata and Kantorei at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 11, in the Second Floor Ballroom of the Iowa Memorial Union. Story

Hearing loop a big help at University of Iowa

KCRG TV: Hearing loop a big help at University of Iowa
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2013.05.02

A hearing loop installed in a University of Iowa lecture room is helping people who use hearing aids and cochlear implants, and plans are under way to add more on campus--including in the new Hancher when it's completed. Story from: KCRG TV

KCRG TV

University Choir, Women's Chorale to perform May 10

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2013.05.03 | By Christopher Clair | 10:05 AM

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free concert featuring the University Choir and the UI Women’s Chorale at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 10, in the Second Floor Ballroom of the Iowa Memorial Union. Story

Schoon to read from new novel May 11

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2013.05.02 | By Christopher Clair | 07:00 AM

Christian Schoon will read from his new young adult/fantasy novel, "Zenn Scarlett," at 5 p.m. Saturday, May 11, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website. Story

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